encourage

encourage
verb
ADVERB
▪ greatly, highly (AmE), strongly
▪

We were greatly encouraged by the support we received.

▪

Speaking your mind is highly encouraged at these sessions.

▪ especially, particularly
▪

She especially encouraged young scientists.

▪ actively, positively
▪

The government must actively encourage investment in these areas.

▪ deliberately, explicitly, openly
▪ inadvertently, unwittingly
VERB + ENCOURAGE
▪ aim to, try to, want to
▪ be designed to
▪

These questions are designed to encourage debate.

▪ be likely to
▪

Newspapers should not publish material that is likely to encourage discrimination.

PREPOSITION
▪ in
▪

Her head of department encouraged her in her research work.

PHRASES
▪ an attempt to encourage sth, an effort to encourage sth
Encourage is used with these nouns as the object: ↑aggression, ↑awareness, ↑belief, ↑bloom, ↑competition, ↑confidence, ↑consumption, ↑conversation, ↑cooperation, ↑creation, ↑creativity, ↑debate, ↑development, ↑dialogue, ↑discussion, ↑diversity, ↑emergence, ↑engagement, ↑enquiry, ↑enterprise, ↑establishment, ↑expansion, ↑export, ↑flexibility, ↑flow, ↑growth, ↑idea, ↑immigrant, ↑immigration, ↑improvement, ↑independence, ↑industry, ↑initiative, ↑innovation, ↑integration, ↑investment, ↑investor, ↑move, ↑participation, ↑partnership, ↑practice, ↑production, ↑reflection, ↑reform, ↑reliance, ↑research, ↑shopper, ↑speculation, ↑spread, ↑student, ↑submission, ↑teamwork, ↑thinking, ↑tourism, ↑use, ↑value, ↑violence, ↑wildlife

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  • encourage — 1 Encourage, inspirit, hearten, embolden, cheer, nerve, steel mean to fill with courage or strength of purpose especially in preparation for a hard task or purpose. Encourage in its basic and still common sense implies the raising of confidence… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • encouragé — encouragé, ée (an kou ra jé, jée) part. passé. À qui du courage a été inspiré. Encouragé par ces paroles. La troupe encouragée par l exemple du chef marcha en avant …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • encourage — [v1] stimulate spiritually animate, applaud, boost, brighten, buck up*, buoy, cheer, cheer up, comfort, console, embolden, energize, enhearten, enliven, excite, exhilarate, fortify, galvanize, give shot in arm*, gladden, goad, hearten, incite,… …   New thesaurus

  • Encourage — En*cour age (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Encouraged} (?; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Encouraging}.] [F. encourager; pref. en (L. in) + courage courage. See {Courage}.] To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • encourage — I verb back, back up, boost, embolden, endorse, hearten, inspire, support II index abet, assure (give confidence to), coax, conduce, contribute (assist) …   Law dictionary

  • encourage — early 15c., from O.Fr. encoragier make strong, hearten, from en make, put in (see EN (Cf. en ) (1)) + corage (see COURAGE (Cf. courage)). Related: Encouraged; encouraging …   Etymology dictionary

  • encouragé — Encouragé, [encourag]ée. part. pass. Il a mesme signification que son verbe …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • encourage — ► VERB 1) give support, confidence, or hope to. 2) help or stimulate the development of. DERIVATIVES encouragement noun encourager noun encouraging adjective. ORIGIN French encourager, from corage courage …   English terms dictionary

  • encourage — [en kʉr′ij, inkʉr′ij] vt. encouraged, encouraging [ME encouragen < OFr encoragier: see EN 1 & COURAGE] 1. to give courage, hope, or confidence to; embolden; hearten 2. to give support to; be favorable to; foster; help …   English World dictionary

  • encourage */*/*/ — UK [ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms encourage : present tense I/you/we/they encourage he/she/it encourages present participle encouraging past tense encouraged past participle encouraged 1) to suggest that someone does something that …   English dictionary

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